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Develop Better High Performing Teams

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As we ease into the new year, many organizations’ executive teams are ramping up hiring for new talent. All these efforts require precise judgment to hire just-in-time talent, using data to make strategic project decisions at a portfolio, program and project level and launching new high performing teams.

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Organizational Competencies: What They Are and How to Develop Them

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I worked in the IT team at my old job. We did a fair amount of off-the-shelf software deployments, and we frequently made the point that we were a healthcare company, not a software development firm. I would not have said we had software development as one of our core organizational competencies. We didn’t need it.

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7 Ways Project Manager Roles Are Changing

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These new skills are reflected in the new Project Management Institute (PMI) guidelines for certification and professional development units (PDUs) needed to maintain certification, a new triad of skills they’re calling the “Talent Triangle.” So, you’re asked to wear more hats, but you’ve only one head. What do you do?

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Embracing Positive Risk: A Path to Innovation

Scrum.org

We spend countless hours developing strategies to prevent bad outcomes, such as project failures, missed deadlines, and unmet expectations. However, there's another side to the risk coin that is critical in product development: the potential for positive outcomes. And that’s how you can get Unstuck. -

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How to Write a Business Case

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The need for a business case is that it collects the proposal, outline, strategy and marketing plan in one document and offers a full look at how the project will benefit the organization. Compile the data and present your strategies, goals and options. Marketing strategy. SWOT: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats.

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Balancing Operational Excellence with Innovation

Scrum.org

How many people struggle with juggling Business as usual (BAU) operations as well as delivering products to customers and well as investing in innovation? Some teams even use their BAU workload as a reason that they can’t go agile? They were essentially “Run” teams building and tweaking stuff. The “Build” part was “Agile”.

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My Experience With Growing A Developer Culture

Scrum.org

For years, I’ve fulfilled the role of Scrum Master for many different organizations and Scrum Teams. These teams were mostly focused on software development. These organizations were able to attract the smartest developers and create products customers loved. Examples of a Developer Culture.